Stefano Zacchiroli <z...@debian.org> writes: > On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 02:10:21PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> I suspect most Debian developers leave DEBEMAIL set all the time. I >> certainly do. If setting that variable causes pbuilder/cowbuilder to >> produce erroneous *.changes files, we probably should fix that bug, >> since otherwise this is going to affect a ton of people. > I presume there's a misunderstanding here. My wording above was too > generic: the bug is caused when the DEBEMAIL variable *of* > */etc/pbuilderrc* is set to something else than the empty string. That > variable, AFAICT, has nothing to do with the environment variable having > the same name. pbuilder is just a bunch of shell scripts. Doesn't it inherit your environment variables? Hm, I suppose the trip through sudo that most people do probably fixes that. I still think pbuilder is using the wrong flag, but yeah, that makes it much less prevelant. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org